Two years earlier, Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates, who served respectively as secretary of state and secretary of defense at the time, toured Panmunjom together.

U.S. officials said Trump will touch on the North Korea issue in his upcoming trip to the region.

“We are in the process of upping the ante and increasing pressure on North Korea to change its behavior,” Matthew J. Matthews, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, told reporters last week.

He said there will be discussions on ways to send a “clear and unequivocal statement to the DPRK that it needs to bring its behavior into line with its U.N. Security Council obligations.” DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official name.

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